Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

I'm presuming you mean reraise and you mean the buff itself.

In which case, I can only really think of one and its very niche. It involves being in a group that has a whm present. If you did a bad and death is inevitable and its quicker for you to die instead of clear everything, which also presumes no pt aggro, you'd click off RR before dying so the whm can arise you 10 seconds faster instead of waiting for the raise popup to be declined.

However, you'd likely have to wait for the mobs to move so you can get up anyways.

Basically, any situation where you know you're gonna be the only one dying and want to get an Arise quicker.

What are some good reasons/good monster situations for Tomahawk? I haven't used the damn thing in quite awhile, and feel like I could be missing out on making some fights easier or something maybe.

Does Ashita work with Windows 7, and will it continue to do so? Windower is ceasing support for windows 7 soon so looking at how to deal with that.

Will SE ever implement international language support (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.) on the English client? Is it too much to ask for? Why only ASCII characters allowed on vanilla?

As far as I know, Windower is not actively discontinuing Windows 7 compatibility. If they update their build conditions, there will eventually be a state where it cannot run on Windows 7 and they don't want to commit to supporting a system that ended official support over 10 years ago(just barely).

Ashita has pretty much the same stance. It currently works with Windows 7, there is no plan to actively break it, but updating build conditions may cause it to eventually cease to function. It is ultimately up to Atom0s, but I assume we will have the same stance we took on Windows XP (not supported).

This might seem radical, but you should really consider trying out Windows 10. The hardware requirements and system overhead are not that different between the OSes, so you could likely run it with no upgrades or loss in performance. Failing that, both Ashita and Windower have had reasonable success on various Linux options.

The neighbor of the girlfriend of a friend of a friend's cousin neighbor that is friend of a enemy of mine said that no, SE wont do anything like that

unlikely, they dont use "ASCII" they use Shift JIS with some custom variations. And ultimately there is likely not enough of a market to justify the development costs, I mean they dropped support for French and German languages which didnt even take additional characters just more autotranslate data.

Correct, the only thing that was said was we looked at moving to .net 9 which would break windows 7 compatibility, AND DECIDED NOT TO make that change.

Could they not just use Unicode or something to make it easier? I guess it's not as simple as changing a database column / table schema encoding?

It sucks to write Japanese in romaji or use romanization for other languages in-game, but oh well.

Windower lets you, through a plugin, use the Japanese IME on the US/NA client to write japanese. You can also use an addon called KanaKanaa, which is a bit better than the IME for some things and a bit worse for others.

So I got a Telos Earring tonight and was fooling around with TP sets.

Noticed that when I put it on without changing any other piece, I got +12atk from it.

Also noticed some disparity with the store TP?

Weapons I looked at are Lycurgos and Ragnarok.

In my usual TP build, Lycurgos gains 205 TP. With Telos on it went up to 212? Shouldn't it only go to 210?

With Ragnarok I get 178 per hit in my normal TP gear. Telos on I get 184. Shouldn't it be 183?

Is Store TP different now, or is this some sort of Delay driven % difference/weird rounding situation? But even so, shouldn't the numbers be lower?

Also what's up with the 12 atk increase instead of 10?

I only get attack +10 on Telos. Are you sure you don't have some kind of attack+ as a percentage in gear, food, cheer effect etc. ?


Tomahawk reduces damage resistances for certain types like Blunt, Slashing, Piercing and Magic by 25%. It would up the damage of those who are using the damage type the enemy is resistant to.

As the BGwiki page says, this ability is effective against Elementals, Slimes, and Undead. This ability is ineffective against enemies with no special damage resistances.

Tomahawk is a game changer on v25s.

They have -25% resistance to even the damage type they are weak against. ex. Kalunga slashing does 75% damage, blunt does 0, piercing does 0. With tomahawk active slashing moves to 100%. (my exact math might be off but its a noticeable boost to damage during the tomahawk window)

Store tp does not increase TP/hit by the store tp amount, it's part of a calculation.

The extra 2 attack is from Smite Job Trait

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Smite

Relatively new and never talked about. Just free attack.

To expand on this, it also lets you do some interesting things that otherwise wouldn't be possible.

For example I've heard of people doing Mboze RP runs by using WAR+SCH. WAR does Tomahawk, SCH does Fragmentation and bursts Anemohelix2. V25 Mboze is normally immune to magic damage but Tomahawk will make it work.

How is it possible to receive 0 exp from a mob? Missing something here, I have a level 50 job killing mobs for a level 5 character and they don't receive any exp whatsoever. I've never seen this before, usually they will get at least single-double digit exp.


Nevermind, I'm dumb. Level 50 isn't gaining any exp, got to be the reason.

Is there a dat mod that makes the huge RoE animation that displays in the middle of the screen any smaller?

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Escha_Rewards/Arcane_Glyptics_Inscription#Augmentation_2

The "Regen" augment at the bottom of this table is supposed to be "Pet:Regen," right?

It's in the "familiar" column, so, yes

The page is inconsistent with it's layout.

Did they ever buff trusts with auto regen/refresh for those that get it? Haven't levelled without a PL in forever and Val is getting 3mp/tic, Ferrous 2mp/tic. I'm in Escha but have no vorseals purchased or active. I remember Ferrous having 1mp/tic not 2.

Wasn't one of the Lv30 capped BCs in Empty zones soloable by PUP with Overdrive?
Or am I thinking about some other BC?

First time winning a prize in mog bonanza, and it was on the sole marble I bought on my main. Rank2. Thinking of getting a cats eye.

I am having a slight crisis of choice as to which weapon is good in the current meta between burtgang, tizona and death penalty. I have tokens and ichor to be able to buy the rest of the materials once. I have captain rank and I am 20% of the way through assaults for tizona, but it has been an on again off again labor of love for my Mythic as I got other tools for other jobs.

Pld has Aegis, Ochain, and Excalibur. Run has the surf board. Both are mastered. I have only recently started Sortie, so think OK gear for 2020. In the groups I run in, I get to be tank or DD depending on the day.

So, in the current meta, is tizona still worth making or should I be looking at burtgang or death penalty given I will likely take another 5+ years to make my next mythic?

BLU is a great job for older content and soloing. TIzona is its best weapon by far. Endgame we have only used BLU for Kalunga25.

Burt is the opposite. Terrible for older content and soloing. But I use it daily in Sortie (Kiting EFH and mass pulling Naaks) Its also useful in Odyssey both for PUG tanking and on quite a few NMs. The +enmity modifiers are its biggest asset IMO.

DP has less use now but our COR uses it daily for B objective in sortie. It was king during Dynamis and I suspect it'll get a lot of use again at some point.

Just fyi
If you hate Nyzul as much as I do and gil/Alex supply isnt a problem, W. Areuhat might be better.

edit: just saw you have tokens, nvm. Gonna leave this because it might be useful to someone else reading this.

Apollyon has double darkness weather, so whenever they open that back up, COR will be king again (if you can Leaden stuff). (RNG Trueflight for Temenos)

As if COR ever lost king status. Since dynamisD pretty much every relevant content had dark or double dark weather + they are on naegling, not to mention that COR does not need good DD potential at all to get a party slot.

Any DD situation without SAM and Chaos roll feels as bad as not beeing haste capped. They're the only ones who can buff pets and they also have something to offer for mage setups.
They even have the best movement speed bonus buff by far which alone would probably secure them a spot in most legit sortie groups.

Dealing high/cap damage with a low hate magic WS is just OP overkill on a already OP job.

This is all very true, but I'll also add that RD, CC, and WC are also massive boosts to basically every strategy COR is involved with, depending on content length of course.

COR is just straight up OP.

Does Valiance/Inspiration allow for fast cast to break the 80% casting time reduction cap?

Wiki clearly states that it breaks the 40% recast reduction cap from fast cast gear (not the global recast reduction, however). Asking because folks in my LS are saying that Valiance/Inspiration does indeed allow for greater than 80% fast cast with regards to casting time and I can't find anything to that effect in my search.

is it safe to rename character macro folders?

EX:
current folder name: 15b667a
change to : Iamarealgirl